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By Sam Lambert On Friday evening, just as the sun set, my eyes started to tear. The constant scratch in my throat escalated to a burn. Red lights pulsed through my windows as the constant thrum of helicopter blades  overhead settled...

by‬‭ Tami Gordon‬ Being raised in New York City colored the lens of my childhood. My magical‬ world was objectively crumbling under the heat of climate change. Under the sweltering‭ embrace of shoulder-to-shoulder complexes...

Join the MA Sierra Club Forest Protection team as we submit public comments to the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Division of Water Supply Protection (DCR-DWSP). For their fiscal year 2025, they have proposed cutting in 1,500 acres or...

By Sam Lambert On a perfect autumn morning, I woke up at dawn to prepare for a long ride down to Rhode Island from my home on the northshore of Massachusetts. After spending the better part of this year supporting our volunteer team...

To protect ratepayers from rising utility bills and meet the Commonwealth’s climate net zero emissions mandate by 2050, the Legislature must pass a comprehensive climate bill this session that includes provisions to begin a gradual, managed...

Two pieces of writing by NE Sierra Club volunteers calling for people to write the the US Forest Service before Sept 20, 2024!

By Sam Lambert I recently moved and left my familiar, fairly short, Orange Line commute into our office behind. Sure, I made jokes about being able to run faster than the train or my chronic anxiety as it traveled over the Mystic River,...

By Jess Nahigian After a year and a half of legislative session, hours of testimony, briefings, citizen lobbying, and over two thousand calls and emails from Sierra Club members to their legislators, the Massachusetts legislature passed...

By Sam Lambert Quick…. Say one word about how you feel about Massachusetts State Lawmakers... I wish I, and our State Representatives and Senators, could hear the word you chose. In our office, words like frustration, despair,...